It must be superyachting season, with Russian billionaires fighting for column inches about their most expensive/lavish/largest/laser-equipped yachts. Roman Abramovich's $1.2billion 557-foot Eclipse has appeared on film, as it sets sail from Germany this week.

Famed Russian yacht-fanatic Roman Abramovich added a new feature to his 557-foot, $1.2 billion…
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It's apparently got bulletproof glass, a missile defense system, and that famed anti-paparazzi laser shield, which detects CCDs used in cameras. Abramovich has got something to hide, by the sounds of it. It's good to see Bloomberg's video cameras were still able to snap it in port—guess that laser shield has the odd bit of downtime too. [HuffPo via CrunchGear]